How to raise Boston fern culture methods and matters needing attention

Pteridophytes are favored by more and more people because of their beautiful leaf morphology, and gradually become the type of plants planted by people at home. Boston fern is a relatively good fern developed in recent years. Planting Boston fern at home can add a touch of green and vitality to the family, which can show the life and vitality of the courtyard. Boston fern is also a very good air purification plant.

How to raise Boston ferns

1. Propagation: Boston fern is often propagated by plant division method. In summer, small Boston fern with roots born from stolons cut from vigorous Boston fern plants can be planted separately.

2, light: Boston fern cultivation is generally cultivated indoors, potted, indoor bright scattered light culture, can not be exposed to direct light, but also can not be placed in the dark place culture.

3, temperature: Boston fern growth temperature is 15~25℃, winter above 10℃ can safely winter. Boston fern needs heating equipment for winter maintenance. If heating equipment is not used, double-layer insulation facilities can be used.

4. Humidity: Boston fern likes high humidity environment and is not resistant to dryness. During maintenance, water should be sprayed frequently to Boston fern and its growth environment to humidify it. The appropriate humidity is about 75%-80%. Boston fern is too dry to cause Boston fern leaf edges to turn yellow, or even the whole leaf to turn yellow.

5, soil: Boston fern in the selection of soil, should choose decayed soil, river sand and garden soil mixed culture soil. Conditions can be used for the growth of water moss medium is better, Boston fern to change once a year pot. Boston fern can be cultivated outdoors by mixing about half of expanded plastic artificial soil into ordinary culture soil and mixing well.

6. Watering: Although Boston fern is drought-tolerant, it still needs sufficient water, and Boston fern watering should not be too wet or too dry, so as to keep the pot soil often moist. Water supply should be sufficient during the growing season. If Boston ferns are often dry, the bottom Boston ferns will wither and fall off. Watering 1 to 2 times a day in summer, often spraying water on Boston fern leaves.

7. Fertilization: Boston fern does not need much fertilizer. It can be applied once every 4 weeks during the growth period. Boston fern should not use quick-acting fertilizer. Do not contaminate Boston fern leaves when fertilizing, so as not to damage Boston fern.

8. Diseases and pests: Boston fern diseases are mainly leaf spot disease and damping-off disease, and pests are mainly caused by caterpillars, scale insects, mealybugs and nematodes.

Boston fern cultivation methods and precautions

1. Soil requirements

Potted plants are cultivated in a mixture of moldy leaf soil, river sand and garden soil. If conditions permit, they grow better in a medium of water moss. Change pots every other year in the spring.

2, watering method

Watering is based on keeping it moist. Boston fern to moisture requirements are more strict, not too wet, not too dry, to often keep the pot soil moist state is better. In summer, some wet sand can be spread on the ground around the flowerpot, and some water can be sprayed to improve the humidity of the environment. In winter, when the room temperature is low, it is necessary to reduce watering and keep the soil slightly moist.

Summer can be 1~2 days of watering once, but in winter to control the amount of watering. Spray water on plants and their surroundings 2 - 3 times a day to increase air humidity. In autumn and winter, wait until the soil is half dry before watering. If the plant withers due to lack of water, the whole pot can be soaked in water to rejuvenate, and the leaves can be sprayed more. If it does not recover after 24 hours of soaking, all leaves may be cut off to promote the growth of new leaves. Boston fern root system is weak, extremely sensitive, so fertilizer concentration should not be too high, otherwise easy to hurt. But ferns like fertile and water-holding soil, so the best way is to add decomposed manure to the pot first, and then apply thin fertilizer later. When fertilizing, avoid contaminating the leaves with fertilizer solution. If it is accidentally contaminated, spray clean water immediately. In addition to culture soil and compost, coarse sand can be added to avoid excessive cohesion. Remember to base the bottom with coarse gravel and small stones first.

3. Change the basin

Generally, the basin is changed once every other year in spring, and the basin soil is mainly composed of moldy soil and a small amount of river sand. If there are conditions, such as moss and other materials can be used as cultivation substrate, the growth will be better. Also, Boston fern. It likes warm environment, suitable temperature for growth is 15~25℃, winter temperature should not be lower than 5 ℃. In winter, room temperature should be kept above 6℃ as well, such as the discovery of the lower layer of old leaves withered should be promptly cut off, in order to maintain a beautiful plant shape.

Propagation of Boston fern

In early summer the stolons grow rapidly and produce rooted plantlets. In summer the vigorous plants are selected and the rooted plantlets mentioned above are cut off and planted separately. Combined with pot turning for plant division, the plant should be inverted from the flowerpot first, the old soil should be shaken off, and then cut into several parts for planting separately, and then placed in the shade, about a week or so can be normal maintenance. Potting soil can be selected when rotten leaf soil, river sand and garden soil mixed culture soil, if you can use moss as a medium that would be better.

Boston fern is suitable for indoor cultivation

As mentioned above, Boston is not only non-toxic, but also able to purify the air, so it is very suitable for indoor breeding, helping people absorb harmful gases, and has a certain effect on ensuring air quality and human health. Therefore, Boston fern is especially suitable for newly renovated new houses. In addition, Boston fern will be placed in indoor culture, but also can play a role in beautifying the home environment, decoration room, fresh green leaves look very beautiful, pleasing to the eye, so that people feel the breath of spring, thus relaxing mood. It is precisely because the mood is relaxed and the quality of sleep is improved, so Boston ferns can also improve the quality of sleep.

The key points of planting Boston fern are only light, soil, water and fertilizer. At the same time, paying attention to the pot change and reproduction of Boston fern can achieve better planting effect. In fact, it should not be difficult to plant Boston fern. After all, ferns are only a kind of mountain weed before they are planted.